Trump admin pulling millions from FEMA disaster relief to send to southern border

[Eugene]

Source: NBC News

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is pulling $271 million in funding from the Department of Homeland Security, including the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Disaster Relief Fund, to pay for immigration detention space and temporary hearing locations for asylum-seekers who have been forced to wait in Mexico, according to department officials and a letter sent to the agency by a California congresswoman.

To fund temporary locations for court hearings for asylum-seekers along the southern border, ICE would gain $155 million, all from FEMA’s Disaster Relief Fund, according to the letter from Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif., which was seen by NBC News.

The allocations were sent to Congress as a notification rather than a request, because the administration believes it has the authority to repurpose these funds after Congress did not pass more funding for ICE detention beds as part of an emergency funding bill for the southwest border in June.

Specifically, the Department of Homeland Security will lose $116 million previously allocated for Coast Guard operations, aviation security and other components in order to fund nearly 6,800 more beds for immigrant detainees, the officials said.

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Aug. 27, 2019, 2:48 PM EDT
By Julia Ainsley and Frank Thorp V


Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-admin-pulling-millions-fema-disaster-relief-send-southern-border-n1046691

[cstanleytech]

1. If Obama had done anything that involved spending money without Congressional approval

the Repugnants like Mitch would be demanding he be impeached.

[groundloop]

2. This is an extremely stupid move at the start of hurricane season.

HOWEVER, it doesn't surprise me.

[at140]

3. There will be no hurricanes in US this year

Did you not hear Trump is going to use nuclear bombs to stop the hurricanes?

[elleng]

6. THOUGHT so!!!

[mr_lebowski]

4. So, 17K per bed? I wonder how many ankle monitors (plus monitoring for a year or two

while people wait for hearings) we could fund with $116M?

I'm betting a LOT MORE than 6800.

Just a guess, mind you.

[jmowreader]

5. It makes a guy only slightly hope...

...that this year's hurricane season brings a Cat 5 that just wipes Mar-a-Lago off the map.

[in2herbs]

7. Didn't Congress recently approve lots more $$$ for DHS without requiring any confirmation

of how it was going to be spent? Where did those $$$ millions disappear to?

[demmiblue]

8. Grr!

[abqtommy]

9. More malAdministration overreach that'll wind up in the courts.

tRUMP isn't tired of losing...yet.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Wonder how much 'commission' Donald is getting out of that $775 per day?

Wonder how much 'commission' Donald is getting out of that $775 per day?

[Haggis for Breakfast]

11. THIS is not how a president thinks,

it is how a CEO thinks.

trump -- America is NOT your fucking sandbox. You cannot just rob one agency to fund another.

I hope Congress jumps on this fast.

[riversedge]

12. I have not heard that Congress may have objections. But time will tell.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

14. I think Speaker Pelosi's remarks were quite clear.

[The Newseum]

13. WTH

He's Trump he can do anything that is against the rules and law.

[Lars39]

15. Let's rework that head line, shall we?

Trump admin pulling millions from FEMA disaster relief to send millions to private companies owned by his cronies.

[The Newseum]

16. Hurricane Dorian, Puerto Rico

Hurricane Dorian spared the Puerto Ricans as it knows that Donald Trump has been bad enough to them..The Hurricane changed its course and set a new one toward Florida a place that is much worthy for Trump.Feel bad for people of florida but it might do one thing, clean the bed bugs of Trump's hotel..
http://www.thenewzeum.com/Home/ReadMore/457-Hurricane_Dorian_spares_Puerto_Rico_Donald_Trump_has_been_bad_enough